Overall they’re more close ending narratives than opening endings which is cliché and makes the viewer quickly forget about the movie they just recently seen if it’s a closed ended narrative. This is also why opening ending narratives are better, as you can socialize with other people and make theory what could have happened next.
First I'll go into detail on how an opening ending narrative first and I’ll be analyzing not one but two so you can get a better idea of an open ending and how it can effect viewers. The movies I have chosen to analysis have both open ending narratives which are Insidious and The hobbit: unexpected journey. First I’ll analyzing insidious. The movie seems to end on a good note until the very lost 5 minutes the film where everyone seems to joyful since the family has got their child back from the clutches of the dead from the dream world where the child’s farther came from.
Everything seems to be alright until the old woman who is a shaman took a picture of the farther which for some odd reason made him furious. He seemed to be possessed by the ghost who followed him back from the dream world but because of the picture taken by the old woman the ghost’s true identity which was revealed. Soon after the ghost thrust it to the old woman and chokes her death. There was a lot of ruckus in the living room which made the mother of the family curious to what was going on. She arrived in the living room to find the old woman body lying on the coach cold stone dead. The mother after freaks out exploring the house for her husband with no trice she returns back to the living with a photo graphic camera on the floor. She picks it up slow looking at the recent picture that has been taken she has a dark figure which looked like a woman a centenary old which appeared as a ghost in the picture. In after you soon what looks like the husbands hand reach for the wife’s shoulder but really it wasn’t the husband after all. This ends as a cliff hanger as you don’t know what happens to the wife at the end and her kids you don’t even get to find out if they all lived her die making people theory craft on their own which has a really great plot twist at the end of the movie.
I’ll now be doing the second open ended narrative which is the hobbit unexpected journey which has all the main characters on a giant cliff filled with nature. You see griffins fly off into the distance. While all character facing their next destination which seems the character have still a far road ahead of them with a mountain peak in the middle which seems to be a castle with a beautiful horizon. You see an eagle fly towards the horizon and the movie ends. This is a cliffhanger as you don’t know if they will make it to their destination this also confirms to be a squeals just from that ending itself it sets itself up for another movie making people build excited and to expect the movie to be even better than the first. This could make most people socialise with friends, family and acquaintances that have seen the film and that have enjoyed it or have hated it either way most people would talk about it more than an closed ended movie that has been fully explained beginning to end.
Now I'll be talking about what is a closed narrative as haven't really explained what it is a closed ending narrative is a movie that has really no mysteries to it by the end all the gaps and should be filled in and there are certainly no cliff hangers.
The reason for people watching a movie with a closed ending ended narratives instead of an open ended movie it that it feels more satisfying. People want to enjoy a movie from beginning to end so they don’t feel like they have wasted their money and this why most people watch closed ended movie. The benefits of you watching a closed ended movie is that there all the mysteries are filled in by the end of the movie and you get to know how character had ended up by the end of the movie.
I'll be talking about two movies which have closed ended narrative so that I can show you examples of what I'm talking about. The movies I'll be using are About time and Season of the witch which both have a closed ending that are really satisfying ending for majority of viewers they also don't have squeal.
About time is a British movie which came out in 2013. At the end of the movie the main character decides not to go back in time anymore because he thought that his life was perfectly fine just the way it is and wanted to lives his life like a normal everyday person. By the end of the movie he has a wife and three children which love him with all their heart. In one scene you get to see the main character walking his daughter to school waving bye to one another before he goes to work. After that you get to have a quick peak at all the characters that you have seen through the movie living out their lives while the main character is narrating so find out how they all ended up by the end of the movie. This made most people satisfied as I have asked them what they had thought by the ending of the movie and I got a positive response from everyone I have talked to about this movie.
Season of the witch is an American movie which released in 2011 which was also directed by Dominic Sena and Brett Ratner. This movie ended with four of the main character fighting off a demon which possessed the only female main character. By the end of the movie, two of the main character which are knights, end up sacrificing themselves for the greater good to banish the demon from the human realm. The main female character ends up forgetting her memories of the two knights but the priest who also survived then reminded her about what happened. Most people would be angry as the main characters of the movie have died but it also a rarity in movies for main character to die making it stand out as a closed ended movie. This can make the viewer regret watching the movie as it feel like it ended in tragedy then a really good happy note like most movies which breaks the clichés in some parts of the movie making more people want to watch it.
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